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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Joining PDF files together.
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From: Jarry <mr.jarry@gmail.com>
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On 09-Jul-20 19:32, Jack wrote:
> On 2020.07.09 13:25, Jarry wrote:
>> On Thu, 9 Jul 2020 at 16:32, Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> wrote:
>> > I've just scanned in a two-page document using sane, and it's given me
>> > as output two separate files.  I would like to join these together into
>> > a single document.
>> >
>> > Would somebody please suggest to me an appropriate package to do this
>> > with.
>>
>> Sorry for stealing this topic, but does any of mentioned packages
>> support "overlapping" one pdf-page over the other? Not sure if
>> I'm using the right word, but what I mean is "joining" two pdf
>> pages of the same size to single page, with content of both those
>> original pages written over each other to single output page.
>>
>> I have been using "stamp" option of pdftk for this, but it crashes
>> sometimes...
> I haven't done it, but would gimp work?  It might be overkill, but
> something about layers sounds appropriate.
> 

It might work, but I'm doing it sometimes on large batches of files,
so I'd prefer scripted solution. From my experience pdftk crashes
about 4-5 times out of 100 operations. So I have to find those cases
when it failed and run them again...

Jarry

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